{"id":7234,"date":"2017-12-10T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2017-12-10T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T15:13:00","slug":"strong-earthquake-swarm-ongoing-in-skjaldbreid-shield-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7234","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake swarm ongoing in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 shield volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10-12-2017) a earthquake swarm started in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skjaldbrei%C3%B0ur\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skjaldbrei\u00f0<\/a> shield volcano (in Global Volcanism program this area is under <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371070\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presthnj\u00fakar<\/a> area). Currently the earthquake swarm is ongoing. This activity started on Friday with few earthquakes and started in full force when the magnitude 3,5 earthquake happened. Largest earthquake so far had the magnitude of 3,8 and was felt as was the first earthquake that happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171210_1350.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171210_1350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"555\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171210_1350.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/171210_1350-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 shield volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the moment the number of earthquakes recorded is at 100 and that number is going to increase as this earthquake swarm continues, number of earthquakes happening has dropped considerably for the last few hours. This is the first large earthquake swarm in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 since 1992 according to Icelandic Met Office records (it goes back to 1706 can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/ymislegt\/storskjalf.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (Icelandic only), locations are not accurate until late 20th century). This earthquake activity appears to be only tectonic in nature and there are no signs of magma movements at the moment.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDonations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please remember to support my work with donations. Thanks for the support. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (10-12-2017) a earthquake swarm started in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 shield volcano (in Global Volcanism program this area is under Presthnj\u00fakar area). Currently the earthquake swarm is ongoing. This activity started on Friday with few earthquakes and started in full force when the magnitude 3,5 earthquake happened. Largest earthquake so far had the magnitude of 3,8 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake swarm ongoing in Skjaldbrei\u00f0 shield volcano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40,155,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-monitoring","category-skjaldbreid","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7237,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}